Climate twins of Dayton, WY

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Dayton's. Each "twin" must be at least 140 miles away to avoid trivial near-neighbor matches. Similarity is computed across all 24 monthly metrics (12 average temperatures + 12 average precipitations), normalized so temperature and precipitation contribute equally.

Side-by-side: Dayton vs its climate twin

Top match: Rawlins, WY

Month Dayton Rawlins
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 35.9°F 10.2°F 0.82 in 31.0°F 14.8°F 1.08 in
February 38.1°F 12.0°F 0.89 in 32.5°F 16.3°F 1.02 in
March 47.0°F 20.0°F 1.49 in 42.4°F 23.6°F 1.60 in
April 55.3°F 28.8°F 2.06 in 51.0°F 29.8°F 1.74 in
May 65.2°F 37.5°F 3.36 in 62.4°F 38.1°F 2.36 in
June 75.1°F 45.0°F 1.99 in 74.4°F 48.0°F 1.39 in
July 85.2°F 51.2°F 1.16 in 81.6°F 55.3°F 1.02 in
August 84.3°F 49.7°F 0.88 in 79.6°F 53.3°F 1.09 in
September 73.2°F 40.3°F 1.55 in 71.1°F 45.3°F 1.49 in
October 58.9°F 30.1°F 1.86 in 55.9°F 33.6°F 1.69 in
November 45.6°F 18.2°F 1.15 in 40.7°F 24.5°F 1.24 in
December 35.7°F 10.0°F 0.82 in 30.5°F 15.5°F 1.14 in

Cities that consider Dayton their climate twin

These US cities have Dayton in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Dayton would feel familiar.

How this is computed

Each city is represented by a 24-dimensional vector: 12 monthly average temperatures and 12 monthly average precipitations. Each dimension is z-score normalized across the population of US cities, so that temperature variance and precipitation variance contribute proportionally. Distance between cities is Euclidean. We filter out cities within 2° latitude/longitude (~140 miles) so that "twins" mean climatically similar but geographically distinct — not just the neighboring town. Full methodology →